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September 15, 2007

G149: Red Sox 10, Yankees 1

Win #90. The lead's back up to to 5.5 and the magic number is down to nine. (The sportswriters for the New York tabloids will have to do a 180-degree turn from today's "alive" articles.)

Boston pulled away against the feeble New York bullpen. Torre used five pitchers in the seventh inning as the Red Sox got two hits and drew five walks, scoring four times.

David Ortiz reached base five times (two singles, two walks, and a two-run double), Jacoby Ellsbury scored a run as a pinch-runner for Kevin Youkilis (HBP, contusion to his right wrist) in the sixth, then singled in two runs of his own in the seventh. JD Drew reached three times, thanks to two walks and a single. Eric Hinske doubled, walked and homered.

Beckett (7-3-1-2-7, 108) was superb. A solo home run by Derek Jeter gave New York a 1-0 lead in the first. After two walks, also in the first inning, Beckett settled down. The Yankees managed only one baserunner over the next 19 batters -- when there were two outs in the seventh inning.

"The New York Yankees cannot be counted out of any game in which they still have at-bats remaining."

In 2007, the Red Sox have a better record than the Yankees when they are:

trailing after 8 inningstrailing after 7 inningstrailing after 6 inningstrailing after 5 inningstrailing after 4 inningstrailing after 3 inningstrailing after 2 inningstrailing after 1 inningtied at the start of the game

"They will remember this inning: the Yankees, the Red Sox, New York City, New England. They will remember what happened in the top of the eighth at Fenway Park this morning, next week, next month. If things happen the way it looks like they may well happen from here on in, they will remember this inning 50 years from now. Every detail. Every minute. Every second."

Sorry for that quick drop in - I burned my fingers cooking dinner steaming spinach, and was watching the game and eating said dinner when Lugo made that play, resulting in a Remy/DO "and in a results based business, he got the job done"

Later on, I posted:

I think "i burned my fingers steaming spinach" should be used in some type of future situation here, but i don't know for exactly what.

my frend called me from his waiter job in boston yesterday afternoon and left me a message:"andy pettitte is going to pitch like shit. how do i know this? 'cause he's here at Maggiano's eating lunch. You feel this food for hours! "well he was right, but maybe oki and pap ate there too...

Law firms let you watch the game and moderate a blog---wow. Law firms either have changed or Canada really is laid back. When I worked at a large law firm back in the 70s, we had to account for all our time and bill accordingly. I hated that, and it drove me out. Along with other things.

NY law firms pay outrageously. My daughter will be earning almost as much as I do (she starts work on Monday) at a very very small NY firm, and I have been out of law school for almost 30 years. The big firms pay almost twice as much. And even paralegals make a lot of money. It's really sort of sick, if you ask me. Not a life I want. No way.

I wish I had known about this site back then! It's funny that what got me intrigued here was the debate about an apostrophe. I just knew this wasn't the typical fan site. I had been posting on OTM, not nearly as much fun!

Without the blogosphere, we would have come to Canada without knowing a soul. The friends who were waiting for us up here were all from my blog - our whole support network. And we are part of that for many other people making the same move.

And not only is his offense lacking, but we've been questioning some of his pitch selections recently, too. It's certainly more of an untouchable area for criticism, but with Okajima and Dice you'd notice it a bit. And Gagné, even.

Yes, I made that comment last night (I am beginning to feel like a bad girlfriend, talking about my guy behind his back) about pitch selection with respect to DiceK. I still haven't seen any media comments on that though.

Yeah, he called a terrific game with HH... I wonder how often Dice (and the other starts) shake him off. He's shown that he can call a good game, but I just wonder how often they shake him off. A guy like Varitek, with his reputation, is not a guy I'd think you'd want to be shaking off.